A man living as a hikikomori hermit for the past 30 years has been arrested after it transpired he had hid his mother’s corpse for 3 years so he could use her pension to steal $80,000 to fund his plamo hobby.

The corpse of the man’s 80-year-old mother was discovered in the kitchen of their Nagoya home, sealed in a vacuum bag for storing futons. Her death is not thought to be suspicious in nature.

She had died 3 years ago, but her 60-year-old son, who had been living as a jobless hikikomori for the past 30 years, hid her death from the authorities so he could fraudulently claim her pension.

In this fashion he succeeded in pilfering from $80,000 to $110,000 – aided by the fact the funds were transferred straight to his account.

Her corpse, still in its bag, was eventually discovered hidden on a kitchen shelf.

Explaining the crime, he made reference to the fact he was a jobless parasite dependent on his mother:

“My mother’s pension was my only source of income. I needed the money so I kept claiming her pension after she died.

I used the money to cover my living costs, and to spend on my hobbies and buy plamo.”

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There’s been this series of articles on how Japan doesn’t check up on its pensioners on Sankaku. Well, turns out that Greece has the same problem. Greece never checked up on the pensions of civil servants and relatives were all too happy not to report their deaths to the authorities. An estimated 80% of Greece’s 5000 centenarians are probably dead.

Oh wait, that’s the wrong number. 5000 is approximately how many dead pensioners were already discovered. Greece has about 9000 centenarians (officially) which would make 80% a very conservative estimate, in my opinion.

Well after 30 years of Munchkinhousen syndrome treatment maybe thats just how it was supposed to be. How many of you are sitting there with burned out intestions, chained to the toilet and bearly enough strength to make it to the kitchen and back? Sounds like what was done to him and to m..

Y’know, welfare is cheaper than jail, should just set it up for him… No, really, probably the trial alone would cost more than just setting him up some kind of welfare for a few years. Or, better yet, tweak the economy so even a basic job pays enough to live at least simply. So you can say “Time to get a JOB” and grumbling and whining he can sweep somewhere but still live inside with the rest of his toys.

Japan, like the whole “West” is being leeched dry by “Welfare Bums” but they ain’t jobless losers, they are the richest of the richest of the rich, kept that way by no labor laws, subsidized trade, outright tax gifts from corrupt politicians. They don’t “Make” any money, they “Take” it by lowering wages, raising prices, outsourcing trade paid for by tax funding. They took the economy down the toilet to move from the 10 mansions and 15 yachts to the 15 mansions and 20 yachts, and they’ll take the food from your mouth to go to 20 and 25.

Collapse their “False Economies” and there will be a LOT of people able to find almost any job and make a living at it.

For once you’re right in the US it actually cost the less to send someone to a major university then it does to put them in a full custody prison.

One of the biggest crimes perpetrated by the US government was making not just pot but hemp in general illegal.

The environmental damage done was worse then all the SUVs in the world.
The cost for locking people up for small drug offensives would have been enough to fund energy program and large space projects that would have removed the need to import energy.
The very rich ie the special interests are the real cancer that is killing western civilization.

Simpsons are a deep color yellow, you don’t think white people are actually white-white like what we are typing on do you? … although some of the exhibitions on this site could of fool me, if i didn’t know better.

After you read enough stories about women being raped and locked up for 30 years, mothers binning and in turn sofacating their children and mmo’ers killing people getting in the way of their mmo’ing.. you kinda expect the worst whenever you click on a link like this on SanCom.

Yeah, people have to realise that Japan has no real unemployment compensation. And because it doesn’t have that, it also doesn’t have as effective government programs to help people back on their feet. And they don’t check on pensions properly either.
If one lives in Europe it’s easy to say ‘Yuck! I would never to such a horrible thing!’ but that’s only because of lack of familiarity with the local situation in Japan.

In the US he probably would have become just another a welfare bum.
Since Japan has no social safety net it is surprising that it’s not like a third world country with beggars over running the streets and shanty towns.

I’m not talking the occasional bum like you see in NYC but the situations you got in Rio or Mexico city.

The mother didn’t kick him out so she consented to his hikkikimori ways. He was a bastard certainly, but he wasn’t really doing anything wrong. She choose societal status over the ‘proper’ upbringing of her son, so what can yah say?

After her death, well what can you do? After 30+ years of hiding away from the world, you can’t just turn a new leaf – it isn’t that simple. You also gotta eat when you can, so who can blame him for committing fraud to survive.

@ Aniki-Sama That kind of thinking is WRONG. By the age of 60 he SHOULD have gotten a job -.-‘ if not he just failed in life. And if he still didn’t find a job till his mom died then wth? He thinks that a person’s death is a fraud opportunity? Very nice. By the way even as a homeless fella you could still survive until you find yourself a workplace.

I really hate people who leech off of other especially this motherfucker who’s broke ass couldn’t get a job so he feeds off of his mother’s pension. And even after she dies, he hides her death and acts like nothing happens and still leeches off the poor dead woman’s pension so he can do his shitty hobbies and live his pathetic excuse for a life? He should be one inside that vacuum bag, not her! Makes me sick to hear shit like that.

I remember joking to my grandma about how when she die, I will chop her body up into pieces and burn it, in order to cheat for extra pension (kind of a crude joke). Well, guess he didn’t have the courage/cold heart to dispose of the dead body in order to let it be found out like that. Guess the lesson is that not to cheat (if you are not brave enough)

This Hikikomori should of taken his momma to the country side some where and interred her properly in a country cemetary.
This way, there would be no “body” to find on the premesis, and his momma would get a decent burial. It would be his own responsibility to tell the government or not if he wanted to continue collecting his momma’s loot.

Listen all you older hikikomori out there, if your parents are ded and you’re still hiding the body on property. You better find a better place to hide the evidence.

If you loved your parents, then you better make sure you find an off the way hamlet, that isn’t serviced by the train. Maybe even a village that is sparsly populated so that nobody will snoop into your affairs.
Give your folks a decent burial with correct markers.

And if you’re trying to collect on their pensions – its up to you to let the gov’t know the truth or not.

Yep, there was a proposal like this before – in Soviet Russia. Forcing jobless people to work in the army isn’t very democratic. What if he’s living off dividends from his investments? What if he just likes being NEET?